• BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Boğaziçi, Istanbul, Turkey)
• MA in Translation Studies (University of Warwick, UK)
• PhD in Comparative Literature (University College London, UK)
• Freelance literary and technical translator.
• Research fellow and part-time lecturer at the MonAKO Multilingual Communication Programme and Christina Institute for Women's Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
• Part-time lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Since 2003, lecturer at the university of Edinburgh, affiliated with Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Prof Susam-Saraeva's research interests have included:

• Gender and translation
• Retranslation
• Translation of literary and cultural theories
• Research methodology in translation studies
• Internationalizing translation studies
• Translation and popular music
• Non-professionals translating and interpreting 

 She is currently working on:

• Translation and (maternal) health
• Translation and environment
• Translation and interspecies communication

Prof Susam-Saraeva has been teaching mainly at postgraduate level translation studies courses (e.g. Translation Studies 1, Translation Studies 2, Research in Translation Studies, Portfolio of Written Translation Exercises 1 and 2, Translation and Creativity, Gender and Translation). She specializes in a variety of socio-cultural approaches to translation.

Completed PhD supervision

• 2023 Yijia Dong: Reconstructing the Female Subject: the English Translation of contemporary Chinese women’s writing in the 21st century
• 2023 Hanyu Wang: Seeking the Others and the Self: Reception of the Fansubbed The L Word by Queer Women in China
• 2023 Grey Micah: English Translations of Gender Nonconformity in Shojo Manga and Anime: A Trans-Queer Materialist Feminist Analysis.
• 2020 Eva Spisiakova: The master-mistress of Shakespeare's passion: Post-communist struggle with homoerotic subtext in Sonnet translations
• 2016 Bibiana Kan: Translation of Novels by English Female Writers in China, 1935-1949
• 2015 Lingli Xie:Blurred Boundaries between Translation and Rewriting Lyrics: A Study of Song Translation Activities in China
• 2015 James Kelly: Toward a Deleuzean Theory of Translation: A Translation of and Commentary on A fuego eterno condenados
• 2014. Elisabeth Möckli: Reporting Goebbels in Translation:  A Study of Text and Context
• 2011. Chung-yan Kong: Travel Website Translation as a Means of Promoting China
• 2009. Kate November: Translation and National Identity - A Case Study Based on the Multilingual Situation of Mauritius and its Reception of Mauritian Creole Translations of Shakespeare and Molière
• 2009. Iraklis Pantopoulos: The Stylistic Identity of the Metapoet: A Corpus-based Comparative Analysis Using Translations of Modern Greek Poetry
• 2008. Fuzi Elmallah: Cross-cultural/Linguistic Translation of the Figurative Language of the Quran
• 2006. Chen, Ya-mei: Reconstruction of Ideology-related Norms in News Trans-editing